4/28/2010 @ 6:00PM

In Pictures: Highest-Paid Bosses

Highest-Paid Bosses

The chief executives of America’s 500 biggest companies took a collective 30% pay cut last year earning total compensation of $4 billion. That’s an average $8 million apiece. Exercised stock options account for the main component of pay, 30%. The average stock gain was $2.4 million.